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Ductape
Aug 21, 2015Explorer
Pardon my mode of reply- I won't give you exactly what you asked for, but the answer to the question you should have asked. (just my opinion ;) )
Those events you're watching are rare. Nobody will watch a video of a boring trip down the highway. I've logged hundreds of thousands of towing miles and I'm at a loss to come up with anything really scary.
Interesting- yes, a few. We wandered off into the wrong side of the tracks one time in Philly, towing the fifth wheel. Attracted a lot of strange looks. but it was kind of funny, too.
There was the powerstroke that stalled coasting down the mountain. Bit of a suprise, but if you are driving sensibly then loss of power steering is not an emergency.
Once we did a u-turn across the freeway median and retreated from a hailstorm.
Sat through a storm in Kansas once that made me nervous. I would have been equally nervous in a stick house without a basement.
My point is that people post and comment on exciting, scary, tragic things, which are rare. Every week there will be a post on this forum about an RV accident somewhere. Meanwhile in any given week more travel accident free. How many RV's are on the road every day in this country?
I will hazard a guess that the accident rate per miles travelled for RV's is lower than it is for automobiles. Maybe someone will do the research and tell me if that's right or wrong.
Those events you're watching are rare. Nobody will watch a video of a boring trip down the highway. I've logged hundreds of thousands of towing miles and I'm at a loss to come up with anything really scary.
Interesting- yes, a few. We wandered off into the wrong side of the tracks one time in Philly, towing the fifth wheel. Attracted a lot of strange looks. but it was kind of funny, too.
There was the powerstroke that stalled coasting down the mountain. Bit of a suprise, but if you are driving sensibly then loss of power steering is not an emergency.
Once we did a u-turn across the freeway median and retreated from a hailstorm.
Sat through a storm in Kansas once that made me nervous. I would have been equally nervous in a stick house without a basement.
My point is that people post and comment on exciting, scary, tragic things, which are rare. Every week there will be a post on this forum about an RV accident somewhere. Meanwhile in any given week more travel accident free. How many RV's are on the road every day in this country?
I will hazard a guess that the accident rate per miles travelled for RV's is lower than it is for automobiles. Maybe someone will do the research and tell me if that's right or wrong.
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